Sam De Grasse
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Sam De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 appeared in his first motion picture. At first he played standard secondary characters, but when fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas Fairbanks, he joined them. He portrayed the villainous Prince John in Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood. Afterward, he began to specialize in villainous roles. De Grasse was the uncle of successful cinematographer Robert De Grasse.
Born: June 11, 1875
Place of Birth: Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
Known For
The Man Who Laughs
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
The Mother and the Law
To recoup losses from the extravagant roadshow presentations of Intolerance (1916), Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's previously interlocked stories as standalone features, with additional footage and new title cards. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers cause ruin to the lives of marginal Americans.
The Black Pirate
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.
The Half-Breed
In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity - his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
The Racket
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
The King of Kings
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Robin Hood
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Circus Days
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
Filmography
as the businessman
as Bazin
as John Willard
as District Attorney
as William Morrissey
as King James II
as District Attorney Welch
as Freddie's Father
as Blood Keller
as Capt. David Slocum
as Talleyrand
as Ira Harding
as Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
as Peter Campbell
as Pharisee
as Benjamin Levy
as Colonel Lestron
as Defense Attorney
as Pirate Lieutenant
as Officer O'Dare
as Sheriff Weeks
as Dr. Lucien La Pierre
as Ricardo Ruiz
as Frank Langley
as Henry Parrish
as John Carver
as Dr. Cusick
as Pasheri
as King Philip II
as Duke Roberto
as Judge Stillman
as Lord
as Father De Rance
as Dr. Mason
as Prince John
as George Otis
as Thomas Edinburgh
as 'Hod' Brooks
as Capt. Stanley
as John Cumberland
as Dr. Wayne Leveridge
as Warren Goodwright
as Adrien
as Steve Honeycutt
as Dr. Armstrong
as Arthur Jenkins
as Shaver Michael
as Boston Blackie
as Vibert
as Ballantyne, Sr.
as Malcolm Dion
as Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
as Meyer
as Mark Thorne
as Earl Foster
as Gambler Joe
as National Jim
as Tom Slade
as Ernest Peabody
as Mortimer Eddington
as Herbert Wendling
as Steve Shelby
as Jose Alvarez
as Ethan Dexter
as Dr. Richard Cavanagh
as Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story)
as Sheriff Dunn
as Forbes Stewart
as Bud Frazer / The Wolf
as Ira Wolcott
as Silent Smith
as Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)